FIRST ON FOX: The Republican Senate candidate in Michigan, former Rep. Mike Rogers, addressed what guarantees to be a top concern of many voters in November in a brand new marketing campaign advert, making his place clear.
“I do know {that a} choice a couple of being pregnant is among the most troublesome and private choices a lady will make,” Rogers mentioned in a brand new advert, showing seated alongside his spouse, Kristi Rogers, who held his hand.
“Michigan voters have already determined the difficulty, and I respect that call,” he defined, referencing the 2022 election, wherein Michigan voters selected to enact Proposal 3, an abortion rights modification that enshrined the “elementary proper to reproductive freedom” into legislation.
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Mike Rogers reiterated his stance on abortion, promising to not contradict Michigan’s legislation whereas within the Senate. (Reuters, IStock)
The modification additionally protected rights to contraception and coverings for infertility.
“Within the Senate, I will not do something to vary it,” he promised within the 15-second digital marketing campaign advert.
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A supply acquainted informed Fox Information Digital the advert is supposed to fight purported misinformation from the marketing campaign of Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., on Rogers’ stance.
They are going to proceed to deal with this as obligatory with marketing campaign expenditures, the supply added.
The video comes the identical day as Slotkin rolled out two abortion-related advertisements in opposition to Rogers as a part of a multimillion-dollar purchase working on broadcast, cable and digital platforms.
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One advert slams Rogers for his espoused help for restrictions on abortion in 1994. On the time, he informed the Lansing State Journal, “I help all restrictions on abortions, since I think about it intentional taking of life. I’d additional help laws proscribing abortions finished for selecting the intercourse of a child.”
She additionally took intention on the Republican for reportedly expressing help in a questionnaire supposedly 20 years in the past for coverage reminiscent of a “human life modification,” establishing that infants are thought of a life as soon as they’re conceived.
Slotkin’s second advert encompasses a girl named Sarah, describing having a number of miscarriages and a difficulty along with her fifth being pregnant that she mentioned required an abortion. “I am scared that Mike Rogers will proceed to remove my rights,” she mentioned.
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Mifepristone is among the two tablets utilized in the commonest sort of abortion within the nation. (AP Photograph/Allen G. Breed)
Nevertheless, Rogers has pushed again at recommendations that these situations would outline his actions within the Senate, doing so as soon as once more within the Wednesday video. In truth, Rogers has dedicated persistently since launching his Senate marketing campaign final yr to abiding by the Michigan abortion legislation and never supporting federal laws that may contradict it. He has additional gotten behind former President Trump’s stance that abortion needs to be left to the states.
In Michigan, abortion was the third most cited as a high difficulty for voters in a July Fox News Poll. The highest difficulty for essentially the most voters by far was the financial system, with 35% saying so. This was adopted by immigration at 17% and abortion at 16%.
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Based on a CNN ballot launched this month, Slotkin leads Rogers 47% to 41%. A earlier AARP-commissioned ballot of the race final month confirmed Rogers tied along with her among the many key demographic of voters over 50 years previous, with every posting 46%. Amongst all voters, Slotkin barely led her opponent, 47% to 44%.
A high political handicapper, the Cook Political Report, rated the Michigan Senate race a “toss up,” regardless of the seat’s prolonged historical past of going Democrat.
